Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, right, views an honor guard, accompanied by Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfy, as he arrives in Alexandria, Egypt, for a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in 1986.

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Prime Minister Shimon Peres checks out a fighter jet during a tour of an Israeli Aircraft plant in Tel Aviv on Feb. 7, 1985.

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Defense Minister Shimon Peres, second from left, attends the funeral of Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, co-commander of an Israeli commando raid on a hijacked plane in Uganda, at his grave in Jerusalem on July 5, 1976. Some faces were painted out by censors for security seasons.

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, center, shakes hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir after their final political talks in Jerusalem on Nov. 21, 1977. At right is Shimon Peres.

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Defense Minister Shimon Peres, left, congratulates Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Feb. 23, 1977, in Tel Aviv after learning that Rabin was elected by members of the ruling Labor Party to represent it in the May 17 general elections.